As a National Partnership School, St Francis of Assisi School's Leadership Team (Paul Longobardi, Pat Davis, Gavan Hoctor and Mandy Madaschi above) are participating in the Leaders Transforming Learning and Learners (LTLL) program. This program commenced in November 2009 at which time members of the leadership team attended the initial programme overview sessions presented by Michael Bezzina and Charles Burford from the ACU.
The National Partnership Broad Aims are:
Achieving effective evidence based teaching
Demonstrating strong leadership and whole school engagement in literacy and numeracy
Developing processes to monitor school and student performance to identify when support is needed
We have used the National Partnership broad aims to assist us in determining goals and setting targets. (See School National Partnership Plan below)
The first goal we identified was to increase leadership capacity to build a culture of continuous improvement in literacy.
We
began by staff engagement in Focus on Reading 3-6 professional learning program. This was the beginning of our learning journey and initiated valuable reflective dialogue and discussion.
The Staff, with the assistance of the CEO Education Officer, unpacked the Diocesan Learning and Teaching Framework looking at classroom practice with a focus on reading. Below is the DLTF Presentation, templates, a 'snapshot' of staff dialogue during coding of a lesson and the lesson plan. (Note: The video of the lesson used for the purpose of coding is too big to upload to the wiki)
Our second goal is to engage in leadership coaching and mentoring. We conducted a Capacity Building
Survey with all staff and then analysed the results. The
results were presented to the teachers for discussion
and action.
The continuing challenge is for us to demonstrate strong leadership and whole school engagement. The question we keep asking ourselves is how does this happen?
8th July 2010
LEADERS TRANSFORMING LEARNING AND LEARNERS MIDPOINT GATHERING:ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI, WARRAWONG AND ST MARY'S, CASINO IN WOLLONGONG JULY 2010
Peter Turner, Director CEO Wollongong (right) with Charles Burford and Mick Bezzina
MID-POINT GATHERING IN WOLLONGONG with the Leadership Teams of Warrawong and Casino and CEO Personnel
As a National Partnership School, the Leadership Team at St Francis of Assisi is participating in the Leaders Transforming Learning and Learners (LTLL) program. This program commenced in November 2009 and the Leadership Team recently met for a mid-point gathering at CEO with staff from St Mary’s, Casino and Associate Professors Mick Bezzina and Charles Burford from ACU.
The St Francis of Assisi Team was proudly able to speak about their journey so far in the development of active roles and their plans for all staff to embrace the Professional Development Planning and Review process.
Greetings to all at Warrawong! Reading the above it looks like you have been busy presenting workshops to your staff! It woud be great to hear about how the workshops have gone and what benefits you are seeing as a result of the PD that you are running. This might inspire some of our other WIKI members. Also it would be fantastic to hear more about your project and what each of you aim to do!!! Jane 28/4/10
Hi, Warrawong! If you had any handouts that you used, could you share those too?
Mick
As a National Partnership School, St Francis of Assisi School's Leadership Team (Paul Longobardi, Pat Davis, Gavan Hoctor and Mandy Madaschi above) are participating in the Leaders Transforming Learning and Learners (LTLL) program. This program commenced in November 2009 at which time members of the leadership team attended the initial programme overview sessions presented by Michael Bezzina and Charles Burford from the ACU.
The National Partnership Broad Aims are:
We have used the National Partnership broad aims to assist us in determining goals and setting targets. (See School National Partnership Plan below)
The first goal we identified was to increase leadership capacity to build a culture of continuous improvement in literacy.
We
began by staff engagement in Focus on Reading 3-6 professional learning program. This was the beginning of our learning journey and initiated valuable reflective dialogue and discussion.
The Staff, with the assistance of the CEO Education Officer, unpacked the Diocesan Learning and Teaching Framework looking at classroom practice with a focus on reading. Below is the DLTF Presentation, templates, a 'snapshot' of staff dialogue during coding of a lesson and the lesson plan. (Note: The video of the lesson used for the purpose of coding is too big to upload to the wiki)
Our second goal is to engage in leadership coaching
and mentoring. We conducted a Capacity Building
Survey with all staff and then analysed the results. The
results were presented to the teachers for discussion
and action.
The continuing challenge is for us to demonstrate strong leadership and whole school engagement.
The question we keep asking ourselves is how does this happen?
8th July 2010
LEADERS TRANSFORMING LEARNING AND LEARNERS MIDPOINT GATHERING:ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI, WARRAWONG AND ST MARY'S, CASINO IN WOLLONGONG
JULY 2010
As a National Partnership School, the Leadership Team at St Francis of Assisi is participating in the Leaders Transforming Learning and Learners (LTLL) program. This program commenced in November 2009 and the Leadership Team recently met for a mid-point gathering at CEO with staff from St Mary’s, Casino and Associate Professors Mick Bezzina and Charles Burford from ACU.
The St Francis of Assisi Team was proudly able to speak about their journey so far in the development of active roles and their plans for all staff to embrace the Professional Development Planning and Review process.
Greetings to all at Warrawong!
Reading the above it looks like you have been busy presenting workshops to your staff! It woud be great to hear about how the workshops have gone and what benefits you are seeing as a result of the PD that you are running. This might inspire some of our other WIKI members. Also it would be fantastic to hear more about your project and what each of you aim to do!!!
Jane 28/4/10
Hi, Warrawong! If you had any handouts that you used, could you share those too?
Mick